| 2. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with the vav-consecutive verb vayaʿaś {וַיַּעַשׂ | vayyaʿăś} ‘and he did’, marking sequential narrative action. The subject Asa {אָסָא | ʾāsāʾ} follows, described by the definite adjectives hattôb {הַטּוֹב | hattôb} ‘the good’ and hayāšār {יָשָׁר | hayāšār} ‘the upright’. The idiomatic prepositional phrase be’einei {בְּעֵינֵי | bəʿênê} ‘in the eyes of’ introduces divine evaluation. The compound designation Yəhōwāh ʾĕlōhā́v {יְהוָה אֱלֹהָיו | Yəhōwāh ʾĕlōhā́v} underscores covenant relationship, here rendered “the LORD his God.” Hebrew VSO order is rendered SVO in English while preserving the evaluative idiom. |